Persistence vs Persistency - What's the difference?
persistence | persistency |
The property of being persistent.
(computer science) Of data, continuing to exist after the execution of the program.
(meteorology) Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).
(uncountable) The state or characteristic of being persistent.
* , King Henry IV, Part 2 , act 2, sc. 2:
* 1881 , . A Laodicean , ch. 5:
* 1913 , :
* 2008 March 29, Ed Pilkington, "
(countable) A measure of how much something persists.
* 1998 March 28, John Chapman, "
Persistency is a synonym of persistence.
Persistency is a derived term of persistence.
As nouns the difference between persistence and persistency
is that persistence is the property of being persistent while persistency is the state or characteristic of being persistent.persistence
English
Noun
(en noun)- You've got to admire his persistence . He's asked her out every day for a month even though she keeps turning him down.
- Once written to a disk file, the data has persistence : it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.
Synonyms
* persistency * See also * See alsopersistency
English
Noun
- Prince Henry : By this hand thou thinkest me as far in the devil's book as thou and Falstaff for obduracy and persistency .
- On entering her room he had been struck by the absence of that saucy independence usually apparent in her bearing towards him, notwithstanding the persistency with which he had hovered near her for the previous month.
- However that may be, the hostility of the comic writers had evidently a general hostility behind it. Our tradition states this definitely and the persistency of the attacks proves it.
The white house losers," The Guardian (UK) (retrieved 6 July 2014):
- "I'm not into mood changes," he says. "These ups and downs undermine consistency and persistency of purpose."
Pensions Investigated," The Independent (UK) (retrieved 6 July 2014):
- The table shows that three-year "persistencies " range from 89.6 per cent with Standard Life (this means only 10 per cent of plans have lapsed after three years) to 58.9 per cent with Sun Life (almost 40 per cent of plans lapse after three years).